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The impact of female employment on male wages and careers : evidence from the English banking industry, 1890 - 1941
Seltzer, Andrew - 2012
The late 19th and early 20th century British labour market experienced an influx of female clerical workers. Employers argued that female employment increased opportunities for men to advance; however, most male clerks regarded this expansion of the labour supply as a threat to their pay and...
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Money and happiness : evidence from the industry wage structure
Pischke, Jörn-Steffen - 2011
There is a well-established positive correlation between life-satisfaction measures and income in individual level … from money to happiness. I use industry wage differentials as instruments for income. This is based on the idea that at … estimates suggesting that most of the association of income and well-being is causal. -- life satisfaction ; well-being …
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Just the facts, ma'am : postsecondary education and labor market outcomes in the US
Holzer, Harry J.; Dunlop, Erin - 2013
labor market outcomes in the U.S. using two nationally representative sources of data: The Survey of Income and Program … low-income families or with weak academic achievement in high school. Young women (especially among whites and blacks) now …
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Taking it to the limit : effects of increased student loan availability on attainment, earnings, and financial well‐being
Black, Sandra E.; Denning, Jeffrey T.; Dettling, Lisa J.; … - 2023
Growing reliance on student loans and repayment difficulties have raised concerns of a student debt crisis in the United States, but little is known about the effects of student borrowing on human capital and long-run financial well-being. We use variation induced by recent expansions in federal...
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Reservation wages, expected wages and the duration of unemployment : evidence from British panel data
Brown, Sarah; Taylor, Karl - 2009
In this paper we analyse the role of wage expectations in an empirical model of incomplete spells of unemployment and reservation wages. To be specific, we model the duration of unemployment, reservation wages and expected wages simultaneously for a sample of individuals who are not in work,...
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The employment of temporary agency workers in the UK : with or against the trade unions?
Böheim, René; Zweimüller, Martina - 2009
A firm's decision to employ agency workers may be perceived as a replacement of directly employed workers or as way to curb union power, which trade unions would oppose. Alternatively, trade unions may encourage the (temporary) employment of agency workers in a firm, if they manage to bargain...
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The part-time pay penalty for women in Britain
Manning, Alan (contributor); Petrongolo, Barbara (contributor) - 2006
Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full-time. This gap has widened greatly over the past 30 years. This paper tries to explain this part-time pay penalty. It shows that a sizeable part of the penalty can be explained by...
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The influence of wages on parents' allocations of time to child care and market work in the United Kingdom
Kalenkoski, Charlene M. (contributor);  … - 2006
We use time-diary data on couples with children from the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Survey to examine the impacts of own and partner's wages on parents' provision of child care and market work on weekdays and on weekends and holidays. We find that increases in partners' wages increase women's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003499213
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Ownership and pay in Britain
Pendleton, Andrew; Bryson, Alex; Gospel, Howard F. - 2015
Drawing on principal-agent perspectives on corporate governance, this paper examines whether employees' hourly pay is linked to ownership dispersion. Using linked workplace-worker data from the British Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS) 2011, we find average hourly pay is higher in...
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Language proficiency and labour market performance of immigrants in the UK
Dustmann, Christian; Fabbri, Francesca - 2000
This paper uses two recent UK surveys to investigate labour market performance, the determinants of language proficiency, and the effect of language on earnings and employment probabilities of non-white immigrants. Our results show that language acquisition, employment probabilities, as well as...
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